* Some of the UI features seem confusing e.g. charts on the CM Services page * Sometimes it gets confusing to follow a single path for installation due to multiple recommended approaches e.g. parcels vs packages

* Maintenance of our own data lake in the enterprise-level * Storage and analysis of server logs * Applying Operational Intelligence in the enterprise-level based on the analysis of various department units data * Semantic analysis based on... more»

The things that I have found of value are those that make database management easier to deal with. I have been using Netezza and Oracle DBA for several years so the big data is a bit of a mind shift for me. The thing that I have found most... more»

The customer that I am working with has had a portion of the database that they will be shifting from Netezza to BigInsights. This will remove all of the queries and overhead on Netezza around those tables. This will be a big improvement and... more»

I have found a lot of issues in Fluid Query and BigInsights Applications to move data in the enterprise version. I have several tickets on these with IBM as they need to be addressed to have a solid implementation. Fortunately none of these... more»

Senior Information Management Consultant at a retailer with 51-200 employees

Sep 25 2016

What do you think of Netezza Analytics?

Valuable Features
There is minimal on-going maintenance.
• Improvements to My Organization
There were some reports we couldn't get because of performance, but with Netezza we could get more of them.
• Room for Improvement
It needs a better in-house development tool.
• Use of Solution
I've used it for three years.
• Deployment Issues
Functions are difficult to deploy.
• Stability Issues
No issues encountered.
• Scalability Issues
No issues encountered.
• Customer Service and Technical Support
Customer Service: 7/10. Technical Support: 7/10.
• Previous Solutions
Our customers mostly switch from traditional RDMs to appliances.
• Initial Setup
It is very easy to setup.
• Implementation Team
We used an in-house vendor who were 8/10.
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Big Data Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Aug 25 2017

What do you think of Apache Spark?

Valuable Features
The good performance. The nice graphical management console. The long list of ML algorithms.
• Improvements to My Organization
We are able to solve problems, e.g., reporting on big data, that we were not able to tackle in the past.
• Room for Improvement
Apache Spark provides very good performance The tuning phase is still tricky.
• Use of Solution
I've used it for 2 years.
• Deployment Issues
We didn't have an issue with the deployment.
• Stability Issues
In the past we deployed Spark 1.3 to use Spark SQL but unfortunately one of our queries failed because of a bug fixed in following releases. Then we moved to Spark 1.6 but still some queries were failing when run against huge datasets. Now we are using version 2.1: it is more stable, it...